Camryn Cobb
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Graduate Research Assistant
262-1 Dawson Hall
305 Sanford Dr.
Athens, GA 30602
Education
| Degree | Field of Study | Institution | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Consumer Economics | University of Georgia | May 2025 |
| M.S. | Applied Consumer Analytics | University of Georgia | May 2022 |
| B.S.F.C.S. | Consumer Journalism | University of Georgia | May 2021 |
Research
My current research examines community well-being, with a focus on how people in communities learn to coexist in ways that promote the collective action. I study the ways in which stereotypes, inequality, and marginalization as well as social justice and activism attitudes can impact public policy preferences of community members and, therefore, the community as a whole. I am especially interested in zero-sum thinking and how it causes people to behave in self-promoting ways that might be harmful to the well-being of others (i.e. endorsing stereotypes, unsupportive toward public policy for marginalized people) or makes them less likely to engage in behaviors that promote the well-being of all (e.g., social justice, activism, civic engagement).
Areas of Expertise
Community well-being, social justice, marginalization, collective action, social change
Books
To Hear a Girl Scream: a Memoir of Dreams and Insights by Camryn Cobb
Journal Articles
Vanessa Gonlin & Camryn Cobb (2023) Who is your fate linked to? Racial discrimination predicting linked fate among people with mixed-race ancestry, Social Identities, 29:4, 353-377, DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2023.2249406